Criminal Defense

The result of a verdict today in a criminal trial is that everyone with a twitter or Facebook account gets to let the world know how ignorant they are of the criminal justice system. I know, Fi...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-embarrassment-of-george-zimmerman.html

LAST FRIDAY NIGHT (12/28/2012), IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HOLIDAY VACATION SEASON, THERE WAS A DUI CHECKPOINT ON THE WAY TO MIAMI BEACH. WHEN I SAY "ON THE WAY," I MEAN AT ABOUT 6:30 P.M. NOW LET M...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/about-that-dui-checkpoint-on-miami.html

BUT SOMETIMES,  WE FORGET WHAT WE GOT,  WHO WE ARE,  OH WHO WE ARE NOT,  I THINK WE GOTTA CHANCE,  TO MAKE IT RIGHT  - AMOS LEE - KEEP IT LOOSE, KEEP IT TIGHT IT'S EARLY SAT...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/because-theres-nothing-to-say.html

One thing that social media has shown me is that we have lost the ability (or maybe never had it) to engage in civil discourse about politics. Seriously, some of your heads are going to explode ...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-thoughts-about-presidential-election.html

Yesterday the Republican Party of Florida voted unanimously to oppose the retention of three Florida Supreme Court Justices. For those (most people) not paying attention, there is a movement afo...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/has-republican-party-of-florida-lost.html

When you blog, you feel compelled to explain why you haven't blogged. You get comments like "haven't seen you blogging lately." I don't feel compelled to explain, but I will. I haven't been blo...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/wine-for-public-defenders.html

This past weekend I ended my term as Immediate Past President of FACDL at its 25th Annual Meeting. That's it, no more officer positions. I'm done there. I sit on the board as a past president, se...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/criminal-defense-association-message-to.html

Another one of those damn studies: From the press relase: TALLAHASSEE — Thanks to its gung-ho approach to lengthening jail time, Florida led the charge in beefing up prison sentences during ...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/florida-is-number-one-in-prison.html

It will be my third time. The first time I got as far as being brought down to a criminal courtroom and after answering in the affirmative that I knew almost the entire list of names of lawyers...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/tomorrow-i-become-juror-885.html

Any criminal defense lawyer in a city with an international airport has dealt with the guy who finds himself in the local lock up after passing through customs and being advised of the presence o...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/attack-of-stupid-warrants.html

It was a lone comment on one of the hundreds of stories announcing the arrest of George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin: "Now I pray for a conviction." That's nice. I pray that there ...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/you-pray-for-conviction-while-i-pray.html

Got an email today. Subject line was "Trayvon Martin Media." In the past week, our phones have not stopped ringing with calls from TV & Producers asking for legal experts who can discuss the Tr...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/wanna-get-famous-off-trayvon-martin.html

So now here in Florida we have a dead black kid , killed by a neighborhood captain of crime watch white guy that has 911 on speed dial , and has the community - the country - in a rage over the f...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/unintended-consequences-again.html

In Miami, we have a misdemeanor "jail division." It's for those charged with misdemeanors that haven't bonded out for whatever reason. All their cases are set for trial in the "jail division." Th...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/another-stupid-discussion-about-trying.html

Why is it that only after a kid like T.J. Lane blows away 3 other kids, whose only crime was going to school that day, do we begin to look at their social media activity? Why is it that a kid l...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/if-you-see-something-say-nothing.html

I'm one of those that laughs at things on the internet that others don't find funny. I think people get a little too bent out of shape about well-intended jokes that because they don't fit in to ...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-this-isnt-how-to-spot-criminal.html

The email was one of many I, and other lawyers, receive: I am hosting a free teleseminar on August 10, 2011 entitled: "How to Double Your Criminal Defense Practice Income Without Spending One E...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/listening-in-on-double-your-income-call.html

I haven't spent much time talking about the TSA. Unlike my good American Mark Bennett , I still fly. I have plenty of other things that invoke my anger, but the recent allegations of a strip sear...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/if-post-about-tsa-fell-in-forrest.html

It's almost a daily exercise, watching video of law enforcement conduct that raises eyebrows. The responses are always the same: 1) The video doesn't tell the entire story, 2) We don't understand...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/its-time-for-national-conversation-on.html

As I write, Amanda Knox is on a British Airways plane to London on her way home to Seattle after an Italian appellate court overturned her murder conviction. The majority of Americans (not as man...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/amanda-and-casey.html

There are few experienced criminal defense lawyers who can't say they've "seen it all." But then this pops up: An order from Southern District of Florida Magistrate William Turnoff, worth a paus...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-hire-criminal-lawyer.html

As practice areas go, the criminal defense bar is about as collegial as it gets. Yes, we, like any other type of "consumer" lawyers (PI, divorce), have our bunch that market themselves to death...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/criminal-defense-mafia.html

The story goes like this: Florida was a state that didn't have automatic restoration of civil rights after a criminal was released from his sentence. Our former governor changed that. Then, one d...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/floridas-new-clemency-rules-cause.html

Until you've had it, it's the dream of every criminal defense lawyer - to get that case. The big one. The one everyone is talking about. That client - the famous one, the one everyone will be wat...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/taking-that-case-in-norway.html

This will be it, nothing more to write. Four years for four misdemeanor counts of lying to police? The proper sentence, in this case (assuming the double jeopardy argument doesn't apply to the f...

http://criminaldefenseblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/casey-anthony-epilogue.html